Statistical note on the State University, Westminister University, and 164 3 LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. JUNE 7, 1898. SIR: I have the honor to submit herewith the twenty-first number of the current series of contributions to American educational history, prepared for this Bureau and edited by Prof. Herbert B. Adams. The present volume is the history of Higher Education in Missouri, planned by Prof. Marshall S. Snow, of Washington University. Missouri, like Louisiana, originated in a French settlement. After 1820 the State was settled chiefly by immigrants from Kentucky and Virginia. After 1848 a large number of Germans settled in and about St. Louis. By that time the great stream of Northern migration had reached the Mississippi and crossed it into Iowa and Missouri. The early settlers founded the State educational system on a very broad basis, as may be seen by studying the laws founding the State University and the common-school system. The history of the State University, at Columbia, and of Washington University, of St. Louis, are of great interest as furnishing two types of educational enterprise, each one achieving a successful |